cybersecurity

also referred to as: cyber security

11 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Kim Zetter · across every show →

Everything said about cybersecurity, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zetter: Obama administration's cybersecurity focus drove private sector investment
“The government's focus on cybersecurity, and by government I mean the Obama administration specifically has made cybersecurity one of its primary focuses. And that has then trickled down and caused everyone else to focus on this more, because that means money …”
Kim Zetter Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:43 a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Zetter: Security improvements force hackers to retool rather than stopping them
“What changes is in some of these hacks is that we get a little smarter with security, and so the hackers have to go back and retool their techniques. But they do come back again. They come back with new techniques and new methods and new tools just to achieve …”
Kim Zetter Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | How Hacks Happen (Let’s Just Say Mistakes Have Been Made)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Rubin: Viewing cybersecurity as binary safe versus breached is no longer viable
“I think the aha moment for security, and it's recent, it's measured probably in months or maybe a year or two, is that this concept of being in a binary state of safe or breached is no longer a viable way to look at the world. Because with this much out there,…”
Andrew Rubin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | Barbarians at the Gate -- How to Think About Enterprise Security Today
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
McKinnon: Winning in cybersecurity means moving forward, not achieving zero breaches
“I think that if you think about, winning is not zero breaches. I think winning is moving your organization forward.”
Todd McKinnon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:04 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wittes: Cybersecurity became a partisan political issue in the US
“We have over the last year accidentally created a partisan issue out of cybersecurity.”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:03 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Casado: Washington gets cybersecurity right by taking a holistic critical infrastructure view
“Actually, I think Washington is kind of what gets it right, actually, like, believe it or not, like, maybe not the response you're getting, and the reason is because they take a holistic view to cybersecurity, and I think that's what we should all do.”
Martin Casado Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:31 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Gleicher: Nuclear deterrence is a flawed analogy for cybersecurity threats
“Nuclear deterrence is built around the model of a sovereignty ending massive event as opposed to constant low-grade threat. It really doesn't map very well.”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:46 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Chokshi: Cybersecurity is like synergy—a hated but necessary term
“This is like that word synergy, where it's like a really useful word, but everyone hates it, and there's no better alternative.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:55 a16z Podcast | Cybersecurity in the Boardroom vs. the Situation Room
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ehrensvärd: Native security standards will make cybersecurity safer by 2028
“I believe that the world is going to be much better in 10 years. And going back to the car and the seatbelts, today we have 10 times more cars on the street compared to 60 years ago, and we have actually fewer fatal accidents. And it's because there is built-i…”
Stina Ehrensvärd Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:41 a16z Podcast | The State of Security
Mar 1, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
De la Garza: Venture capital invested $7.6B in cybersecurity in 2017
“Last year there was about 7.6 billion invested by venture capital firms into cyber security alone.”
Joel de la Garza Mar 1, 2019 ▶ 5:50 Security Markets: The Lay of the Land
Sep 9, 2026
Opinion
Chi: AI cybersecurity risks are primarily in infrastructure, not code
“But actually a lot of the biggest concern or risk is in the infrastructure level. And so these are not things that are expressed in code, but take simulating larger environments of enterprise cloud infrastructure, or even grid infrastructure, for us to be able…”
Ryan Chi Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 38:15 Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
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